Story Telling

If you are in business as a creative professional of any kind, you should acquaint yourself with the services of Ilise Benun. She coaches our kind in the art or marketing and self-promotion. She recently posted an hour-long interview she did with copywriter Bob Bly and it is packed with information and tips for how […]

Washingtonpost.com has a great article the new trend of corporations, looking for “authentic” images to use in the advertising and promotions, to steal content off the web.
For an even scarier story, follow the link from there to the one about Allison Stokke.

I can’t take it. I hate the new Burger King commercial as much (maybe more) than any of their others. Well… “hate” may be too strong, but I really don’t get it, and I certainly don’t think it’s going to change my mind about their product.
People… people that are supposed to know better… have been […]

Stolen from BostonSteamer:
Q: How do you advertise in the jungle?
A: Gorilla marketing
Q: How do you advertise at the CDC?
A: Viral marketing

The Writer’s Strike has been going on for a couple months now without major national coverage, but I’m betting that’s about to change. The Writer’s Guild has filed Unfair Labor Practices charges against the AMPTP with the National Labor Relations Board for walking out of negotiations 7 days ago. There have also been people asking […]

Is it wrong, when I see those Burger King commercials with the mom’s trying to kill the King, that I am hoping they will be successful?

I just finished a small website for a travel agency in Durant, Oklahoma (on referral from my brother): http://allseasonstravelok.com/. Go have a look and let me know what you think. If you are planning any travel, give them a call and tell them I sent you.
I’ll be starting work another website this week, this one […]

If you can read you can help fight world hunger. Click the “Free Rice” button, spend a few minutes, learn something… maybe about yourself. It’s a simple vocabulary game. The United Nations World Food Program will distribute 10 grains of rice where its needed for every word you get right. So get a lot of […]

I stumbled across this photo of an ad on a bus that goes beyond the usual. This is the kind of creativity that makes me wish I had thought of it first! (click for a slightly larger version).

I stumbled across this news item showing that 7 of the top ten advertisers in the U.S. are spent less the first-half of this year than they did the first-half of last year.
Of note:

#1 Procter and Gamble spent nearly twice what #2 General Motors did in that period.
Among all advertisers: Internet advertising is way up, […]